ēpios

Strong’sG2261

placid, gentle

stem ēpi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* ἤπιος, -α, -ον,

mild, gentle: I Th 2:7 (WH, R, mg., νήπιος); seq. πρός, II Ti 2:24.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2261 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiday'-pee-os

properly, affable, i.e. mild or kind

Fromprobably from G2031;

King Jamesgentle.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἤπῐος, α, ον,
also ος, ον Refs 8th c.BC+
1 of persons, gentle, kind, πατὴρ ὣς ἤπιος αἰεί Refs 8th c.BC+; of a monarch, ἀγανὸς καὶ ἤRefs 8th c.BC+; of the gods, σωτῆρας.. ἠπίους θ᾽ ἡμῖν μολεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐδέ πω ἤπιος appeased, NT
2 of feelings, words, etc., εἴ μοι κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων ἤπια εἰδείη had kindly feeling towards me, Refs 8th c.BC+; μῦθος ἤ. Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀργαί, φρένες, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of heat and cold, mild, less intense, τὸ πνῖγος -ώτερον γέγονεν Refs 5th c.BC+; ἠπιώτεραι αἱ θέρμαι, of a fever, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ τοῦ πυρετοῦ ἤπιαRefs 4th c.BC+; of river-currents, -ώτερα ῥεύματα Refs 4th c.BC+
II active, soothing, assuaging, φάρμακα Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to ἰσχυρά, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀκέσματα Refs 5th c.BC+; ποτήματα soft drinks, opposed to φαρμακώδη καὶ δριμέα, Refs 2nd c.AD+: superlative, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.2 ἤπιον ἦμαρ with infinitive, a day favourable for beginning a thing, Refs 8th c.BC+
III adverb -ίωςRefs 5th c.BC+; χρήσετ᾽ αὐτή σοι τότ᾽ ἠ. Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative -ωτέρως, ἔχειν πρός τινα Refs 4th c.BC+: superlative -ωτάτωςRefs 5th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

babes1×kind1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	ēpios	ēpias	ēpiem	ēpiois1×ἤπιοι	ēpiais	ēpieim
object accusative	ēpion1×ἤπιον	ēpian		ēpioin	ēpiain
direct address vocative	ēpior	ēpiar		ēpioir	ēpiair
of, belonging to genitive	ēpiou	ēpiau	ēpieu	ēpioiu	ēpiaiu	ēpieiu
to, for dative	ēpio	ēpia	ēpie	ēpioi	ēpiai	ēpiei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

ēpistem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ēpi is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

ēpion“kind”objectaccusative singular1×

2 Timothy 2:24… de kuriou ouk datō machorō, alla ēpion arō pros pantoin, didaktikon, anexikakon,… not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and …

ēpiois“babes”subjectnominative plural1×

1 Thessalonians 2:7“babes”… arō hōs Christou apostolois; alla genina ēpiois en mese vu, hōs ean trofas …… contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for …